Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood